Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-25
1903 FARNAM STREET

! this action il became the easier to enforco
the Mathiot resolution.
THE PRESENT CONDITION
of the order is as follows:
Increase.
&rand lodges ..... 81 ..........
Subordinate lodges. S.l0S 152
Grand encampmentS ~ ..........
Subordinate encamD-
mentS. ..... l,EW ~
Lodge limitations. 44,9O6 s,566
Lodge. members. 530,300 12 900
Encampment initia-
tlOnS.. S,UO S,4i2
Encampment mem.
Total relief. - "a 50 s 49, 4ss 81
Total revenue. ...... $3.50, 7I2 81 35O,0S3 60
Sovereign Grand lodge. 5000 S2.2ll,033 CO
australasia ..... ...... l5.l1 5S,4S2 w
SS ',.:.::.... ..'''' oaa,os 1922 ,c'ooo 90 90
Totals. -. ...... -. Isl, ,26l S2,2SS, 500 As
The available assets of the Sovereign
grand lodge are az follows:
August 20, 1887
balance in treasury. ......... .S25,S10 06
United States ~ per cent regis
tered bonds. par.............. 1880 %
United States ~ per cent coupon
DOnuS, par ....... ........... 4O,VUO w
United States per cent coupon
ponuS, paT........ ............ 2,oVU w
- Total assets available. SSl, ,6l9 O6
The grand lodge secretarys report
presents the details from which the sum-
mary of the preceding reports are made
| up. 1t also shows the totals of the opera.
tion OF the Odd Fellows Beneficial asso-
| citation, il has aid or life insurance So
cieties as follows: For the year 1886,
receipts $1.742, 741.SO; paid families of
deceased members, 81 ,427, 7S05S; paid
expenses, $153, 224.00; members received,
| 1889; membership terminated except by
| death, 6,11S; deaths, 1,172; members in
| good standing, S6, 1884; money invested or
on deposit June 80, 1887, $659 81. The
totals 1sd from ron SrgangTattion were Receipts
members, 81, ,593, ,67955: paid for ex-
penses, 1,154, ,3Ss SO; members received,
| 1900; membership terminated except by
death. 25,50S; deaths. 6,60S; members in
! good standing, SO, ,S94.
The statistics of the order from 1890 to
to December 81, 1886, show the number
| of families relieved, 1905, ,2GS; widowed
families relieved, 163,573; members de.
ceased, ,0G0, the total relief has been,
| $43, ,5S9, ,06l 81; and the total receipts have
| been $115,O14, i45.25.
In Nebraska this order has an interest
| ing history, the details of which will
appear hereafter.
The II. OF L. r.
A union meeting of the Brotherhood of
| Locomotive Engineers was held 1t Boston
last week for the purpose of expoundlng
| the principles of the older and inducing
those outside of it to join. A meeting was
| held in the morning open to engineers
only, but in the afternoon the public was
admitted. The brotherhood was well
represented, members coming from all
parts of New England. William Mead,
of Salem, presided, and after briefly re-
citing the objects of the gathering, IN
troduced Lieutenant-Governor Bracket,
who spoke of the good the organization
seemed to be dong, and expressed his
sympathy with it. He was followed by
N. II. Taylor, Mayor O'Brien's private
secretary, who represented the city of
| Boston.
Grand Chief Engineer p. NJ. Arthur, of
the brotherhood, was then introduced, and
spoke of the beneficial features OF the
order and how it aimed to organize the
men for mutual protection, and to obtain
! for the roads better men and higher
standard of work. 1t aimed, he said. to
secure sobrlety among its members above
all things, and, although it did not claim
TO be, was about as good temperance
| society as there was IN existence. Many
a man had been stopped in his downward
| - ~T~ - 49, f1
tlan ana mace SOBER man: IN regard
10 Is insurance uepartment, ne urged
ese,y p.o.ner r w. "Ia.I n'Inse,i ot lts op'
ready paid ont 80 l50 600 to widows and
orphans. In regard to the business fea-
ture of the order, he would say that al
though at first regarded with distrust by
railway managers it was now approved
by them, and he had not met one in ten
years who seriously opposed it,
On every road where the
brotherhood was organized there
was what was known as a "Grievance
Committee, to which all the grievances
OF the men We're made known, 1t ought
to be composed OF cool-headed men and
those longest in the service Of the road
and known to the officials. He was sorry
to say it was not always 50 made out. 1t
was the duty of this committee to lay a
grievance, II it was considered IA just one,
before the officials of the road, starting
with the lowest and taking It in turn, II